Sketches of China, Partly During an Inland Journey of Four Months, Between Peking, Nanking, and Canton;
With notices and observations relative to the present war.
London, Knight, 1841
First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, folding map hand-coloured in outline, publisher's advertisement leaf, wood-engraved text illustrations and full-page plan of Chusan harbour to volume II, volume I front free endpaper excised, folding map with 2-cm tear to inner fold affecting frame only, original purple cloth, gilt devices to front boards, spines sunned, sides slightly rubbed, a very good set.
Cordier, Sinica 2114.
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